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Saturday, August 30, 2014

What is coming up and what you missed in August

On September 18th, our speaker will be Martha Henrichs, an expert on hand quilting. Martha will demonstrate the techniques of hand quilting and lead us through the steps. If you ever wanted to add hand quilting to your projects don't miss this meeting. All tools will be provided, We will have some fabric and batting but if you remember, please bring a sample quilt sandwich to work on.

In August, we met at Stitch in the East Village and our speaker was Trina Kirkvold. Trina is a professional quilter extraordinaire and one of the owners of Woodside Quilting at 5360 NE 14th St. Des Moines.

Trina shared a few of her favorite free motion quilting guides. Trillium House has many guides with different designs.

Trina talked about thread choice. She recommended picking up an accent color for black and white quilts.

On this quilt she used a delicious hot pink.

She also talked about highlighting piecing and filling negative space.

Welcome!

We are a small group of the Des Moines Area Quilters Guild whose tastes lean toward the Modern Quilting movement. If you're interested in fresh approaches to quilt design & construction, have a modern aesthetic, love to explore quilting online & through social media or are interested in finding out what we mean by "modern", come join us!